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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:367/347 RCN
    Construction Number:2093
    Last Civil Registration:CF-IMU
    Latest Owner or Location:Wheeler Airlines Ltd, Saint Jovite, QC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3 by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 69354.

    21 July 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 367/347 as a Avenger AS.3.

    19 July 1955


    Photographer: Forest Protection Files

    Markings Applied: 347

    30 January 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    6 March 1958

    To Wheeler Airlines Ltd, Saint Jovite, QC with c/r CF-IMU.

    Operated as fire service #504.

    Scrapped.
    FIMU was used as a spare aircraft for the 1958 aerial spray season by Wheeler Airlines; it had the original bombay doors (i.e., it was an untanked aircraft), and thus was not equipped to spray. It sat unused for a long period, and was frequently scavenged for parts. Later that year George Lovett, Operations Manager for Wheeler, flew it back to St. Jovite where it was stripped for parts and sold as junk.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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